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New AI-powered method helps protect global chip supply chains from cyber threats
University of Missouri-ColumbiaPeer-Reviewed Publication
From smartphones to medical devices, computer chips power nearly everything we use today. But hidden deep inside these chips, there’s a little-known threat: hardware trojans — malicious modifications to a chip’s design that can steal data, weaken security and sabotage systems. Traditionally, detecting hardware trojans has been an expensive, time-consuming and complicated process. Now, University of Missouri researchers are introducing a new artificial intelligence-driven method to find these threats faster and more easily than before, said Ripan Kumar Kundu, a doctoral candidate in Mizzou’s College of Engineering. In a project led by Kundu, Mizzou’s team is leveraging existing large language models — the same type of AI that powers popular chatbots — to scan chip designs for hidden threats. The method doesn’t just identify suspicious lines of code with 97% accuracy; it also explains why it’s malicious, making the process more transparent.
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- IEEE Access
Improved cough-detection tech can help with health monitoring
North Carolina State UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers have improved the ability of wearable health devices to accurately detect when a patient is coughing, making it easier to monitor chronic health conditions and predict health risks such as asthma attacks. The advance is significant because cough-detection technologies have historically struggled to distinguish the sound of coughing from the sound of speech and nonverbal human noises.
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- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Funder
- U.S. National Science Foundation
World surpasses its first climate tipping point
Goethe University FrankfurtReports and Proceedings
Stirring by mesoscale eddies, not trapping, is the dominant driver of global ocean meridional eddy heat transport
Science China PressIn a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, the researchers combined Eulerian and Lagrangian methods to more accurately quantify surface eddy meridional heat transport (EHT) induced by both the stirring and trapping effects of mesoscale eddies. They find that stirring-induced surface EHT is 1–2 orders of magnitude larger than trapping-induced EHT throughout most of the global ocean. These results demonstrate that the horizontal stirring effect of mesoscale eddies is the dominant mechanism of EHT.
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- Science China Earth Sciences
ESMO 2025: A glimpse into the congress program
European Society for Medical OncologyMeeting Announcement
Centuries of mining turn the mar menor into a reservoir of toxic metals
Universitat Autonoma de BarcelonaPeer-Reviewed Publication
- Journal
- Marine Pollution Bulletin